To Be Free Means To Be Lacking

We Need To Study The Whole Of History, Not To Fall Back Into It, But To See If We Can Escape From It.

The Surrealist Thinks He Has Outstripped The Whole Of Literary History When He Has Written (here A Word That There Is No Need To Write) Where Others Have Written "jasmines, Swans And Fauns." But What He Has Really Done Has Been Simply To Bring To Light Another Form Of Rhetoric Which Hitherto Lay Hidden In The Latrines.

Thought Is Not A Gift To Man But A Laborious, Precarious And Volatile Acquisition.

Thinking Is The Desire To Gain Reality By Means Of Ideas.

We Fall In Love When Our Imagination Projects Nonexistent Perfection Upon Another Person. One Day, The Fantasy Evaporates And With It, Love Dies.